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Report: China Testing Emotion Detection Software On Uyghur Muslims ‘Like Rats’ In ‘Laboratories’

Ian Haworth
Report: China Testing Emotion Detection Software On Uyghur Muslims ‘Like Rats’ In ‘Laboratories’
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The Chinese Communist government has been testing an artificial intelligence (AI) emotion-detection camera system on Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, according to a bombshell report from the BBC.

A software engineer who claimed to have installed this facial and emotion detection system in police stations in the province home to 12 million ethnic minority Uyghurs said, “The Chinese government use Uyghurs as test subjects for various experiments just like rats are used in laboratories.”

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